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From the Baby Centre site

Loved this… 20 ways a baby will change your life…

 1. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.

2. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.

3. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.

4. You’re less self-involved and more self-motivated.

5. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like
sacrifices.

6. You respect your body … finally. (Hooray for baby-making!)

7. You have stronger opinions and are stronger willed.

8. You respect your parents and love them in a new way. (Hooray for
grandparents!)

9. You find that your baby’s pain feels much worse than your own.

10. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child. (Hooray
for the tooth fairy!)

11. You lose touch with the people in your life that you should have
banished years ago.

12. Your heart breaks much more easily.

13. You think of your baby 234,836,178,976 times a day. In fact, you’re so
busy with this that you forget everything else.

14. Every day is a surprise.

15. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you.
(Hooray for poop!)

16. You think before you speak.

17. You become a morning person. (Hooray for watching the sun rise!)

18. If you have a son, you no longer curse men. (Hooray for all men!)

19. If you have a daughter, you hope she won’t endure your same heartaches.

20. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power


.oO rach Oo.

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kinda OT

This is regarding the baby center website, if anyone else subscibes to it
then are you getting the annoying bar thing on the personal pages that moves
up and down the page as you do????? Its really annoying, I can kinda see why
they have stuck it there but ummm no it doesnt work for me!!!!

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Emily Rose update

Sorry I’ve been a bit of a stranger lately but with Emily-Rose, work and family it’s been a bit hectic.

Anyway Emily-Rose is now 6 months old.(photo link at bottom of post, a few photos updated) She is doing well, just getting over a bit of a cold but now has her first tooth, likes her food,gaining loads of weight. She can sit up with a little support and rolls over every time you lie her down anywhere !!

She is gurgling happily away, saying ”baba” ”hey you” (well it sounds like it!!) and ”heather” (heber actually but we know what she means – her sister!!)

Poor cats stay out of her way so she can’t pull their ears and daft dog lets her pull his ears !! If you move her about on the floor the dog follows, he’s very fond of her.

Anyway that’s us, busy but happy.



Karen
DS 10th Aug 1986 – VB – 9lb 13oz
DD 13th Aug 1988 – VB – 10lb 9oz
DD 28th Apr  2005 – VB – 9lb 4oz
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Emily-Rose
updated 29/10
http://photobucket.com/albums/v356/kazh69/Emily%20Rose/?action=view&c…

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32 w appointment

I apologize in advance if posting appointment updates is not the norm.

I had my 32w appointment yesterday. Was a mixed bag really. I’ve gained
1 lb in 2 weeks. I was measuring 2 weeks behind (measuring 30 cm) and I
had trace sugar in my urine.

All these things are not worth worrying about according to my doctor.
This is the first time I have seen this particular doctor (Its a group
of 5 OBs) since she is going to leave the group in December.  Anyway,
she checked my GD test reading and commented that since I made that
cut-off, and the amount of sugar was very little, there was nothing to
worry about. I do have a family background of diabetes, and I "beat"
the GD cut-off value by just 1 point (so my readings *were* on the high
side), so I’ve made a mental note to watch what I eat and excercise a
little bit more just for my own peace of mind.

Fundal height in the afternoon (at the appointment) was 30 cm and at 7
p.m. the same day (when I measured it at home)  was close to 32 cm, so
I’m not particularly worried about that.

Weight gain is 19 lbs to date, could be better, but again, nothing to
worry about.

I had planned on discussing our birth plan and baby’s position with the
doctor, but after the sugar and low weight gain I just couldn’t think
straight. I think it also had something to do with this particular
doctor, she seemed to have a very abrupt manner. Or it could be that I
was stressed and misread a lot of her non-verbal cues.

Sorry this got to be so long,
Thanks,
PK

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Greenpeace USA and a fluoridation question

GREENPEACE USA AND A FLUORIDATION QUESTION

(Greenpeace USA just joined eleven EPA unions in calling upon Congress to
stop "fluoridation."  See the very end of this post.)

FLUORIDATION QUESTION…

Why is CDC promoting a crime (mass battery) that involves injecting
hazardous substances into America’s drinking water?

"Fluoridation" is mass medication without everyone’s consent.

The common law doctrine of informed consent indicates that medication
without consent is a crime/battery.

See BASIS FOR INFORMED CONSENT, below.

Even medication with GOOD medicine without consent is a crime/battery under
the common law doctrine of informed consent.

"Fluoridation" is BAD medicine.

"Fluoridiation" chemicals (fluorosilicic acid, arsenic and lead) are
hazardous substances taken from pollution scrubbers at phosphate fertilizer
factories.  See www.fluoridealert.org.

"Fluoridation" is thus the injection of hazardous substances from fertilizer
production waste sites into America’s water supply.

CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/ATSDR "work[s] with
states…to prevent exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites."
(http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/DRO/r1.html)…

Why is CDC promoting a crime (mass battery) that involves injecting
hazardous substances into America’s drinking water?

FLUORIDATION IS A BATTERY…

"Fluoridation" involves forced physical contact with known poisons
(fluorosilicic acid, arsenic and lead).

Many citizens are not only not aware of this – many citizens are volubly
protesting – governments are not obtaining informed consent…

BASIS FOR INFORMED CONSENT
Battery
€ defendant is held liable for any intended action that
results in physical contact for which the plaintiff has
given no permission.
€ a defendant need not have an evil intent.
€ injury need not result.
Liberty
€ basic human right to control what happens to one¹s
body.
€ independence from controlling influences.
http://courses.washington.edu/mhe523/Session7.pdf

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
t…@chiromotion.com

PS Since "fluoridation" is a water poisoning/hazardous substance crime, CDC
and state attorney generals should end it immediately.

Copied to: Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers via hardy.my…@state.or.us.

UNTIL STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS ACT…

Eleven EPA unions representing 7,000 EPA scientists and lawyers and other
EPA professionals are petitioning Congress to stop "fluoridation"
immediately.

ANYONE can join the EPA unions in asking Congress to stop "fluoridation"
immediately…

Sign the Protect Our Water Alliance/POWA petition…
http://www.powalliance.org/petition

Greenpeace USA has just signed the POWA petition, according to Dr. Paul
Connett’s FAN Campaign Bulletin #404.

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Retired lady protests fluoridation – calls fluoride 'toxic waste'

RETIRED LADY PROTESTS FLUORIDATION

CALLS FLUORIDE "TOXIC WASTE"

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below)

Jon Gambrell
Reporter
BELLINGHAM HERALD
Bellingham, WA
jon.gambr…@bellinghamherald.com

Jon,

Regarding your recent article about Curt Smith, DDS of Bellingham Families
For Fluoride claiming that Shirley Jacobson’s ad insert calling fluoride
"toxic waste" violates several state election laws. (Paul Connett, PhD
reproduced your article his FAN Campaign Bulletin #389.)

BE ADVISED…

Curt Smith, DDS and Bellingham Families For Fluoride appear to be attempting
to commit the crime of mass battery against residents of Bellingham who do
not want the toxic waste fluoride in their water.

From a legal presentation in Washington State…

Basis for Informed Consent
Battery
€ defendant is held liable for any intended action that
results in physical contact for which the plaintiff has
given no permission.
€ a defendant need not have an evil intent.
€ injury need not result.
Liberty
€ basic human right to control what happens to one¹s
body.
€ independence from controlling influences.
http://courses.washington.edu/mhe523/Session7.pdf

THREE KEY POINTS

1. The cumulative poison fluoride may cause bone cancer (see "CDC promoting
limb amputations?" below)…

2. "Fluoridation" (the intended action of Bellingham Families For Fluoride
and Curt Smith DDS) necessarily brings people into physical contact with the
cumulative poison fluoride – over the protests of those who obviously don’t
wish such physical contact with the poison.

3. Even if the poison fluoride works to prevent cavities (there is doubt
about that; see www.fluoridealert.org), the poison doesn’t even need to be
in the water – i.e. – people who want the poison for their teeth can brush
with fluoridated/poisoned toothpaste. (Fluoridated toothpaste is indeed
poisoned. There is a fluoride poison warning on every label. To read the
warning, go to www.aquasafe.us.)

NOTE TO BELLINGHAM RESIDENT SHIRLEY JACOBSON…

Paul Connett, PhD wrote in his FAN Campaign Bulletin #388:

"You may also wish to send an email in solidarity to Shirley Jacobson
<retiredlady…@yahoo.com>…"

Shirley, I hope you’re reading.  Even were the toxic waste fluoride GOOD
medicine, under the common law doctrine of informed consent it would still
be mass battery to administer it without consent.

I hope you’ll ask Paul Connett, PhD why he isn’t publicizing the fact that
the common law doctrine of informed consent indicates that fluoridation is
crime/mass battery.

CDC and the Washington State Attorney General could end the crime tomorrow.

See "CDC promoting limb amputations?" below.

Thank you for protesting the mass poisoning.

Good luck.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
t…@chiromotion.com

———-
From: Todd Gastaldo <tgasta…@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: <misc.kids.pregnancy>, <misc.health.alternative>, <sci.med>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:16:30 -0800
Subject: CDC promoting limb amputations?

Attention Oregon Atty Genl Hardy Myers (hardy.my…@state.or.us)…

IS CDC PROMOTING LIMB AMPUTATIONS?

CDC’s water poisoning "public health measure" may cause limb amputations
("fluoridation" may cause bone cancer)…

According to THE SCIENTIST:

"When boys drank water containing at least 100% of the recommended amount of
fluoride, their risk jumped to more than seven times that of unexposed
boys."
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20050711/01

TWO ACTION STEPS (until attorney generals stop the obvious water poisoning
crime)…

1. Sign the petition asking Congress to immediately stop "fluoridation"…
http://www.powalliance.org/petition/index.html

2.  When you sign, note that Members of Congress should be urging **CDC and
state attorney generals** to stop the water poisoning crime.  See the F
Crime Mystery, URL below.

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below)

Anita Knight
Member
Pinellas County (FL) Citizens for Safe Water

Anita,

Thanks for the interesting article by MIKE SALINERO.
http://tampatrib.com/floridametronews/MGBAONBKXEE.html

I didn’t know they could melt sulfur to move it around.

The sulfur must be burned right there in Florida to produce the sulfur
dioxide necessary to synthesize the sulphuric acid that is poured over the
rocks to produce American Dental Association/ADA-approved dental health
products (fluorosilicic acid, arsenic and lead) and fertilizer.

As you know Anita, "fluoridation" is the injection of hazardous substances
from fertilizer production waste sites into America’s water supply – and
CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/ATSDR "work[s] with
states…to prevent exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites."
(http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/DRO/r1.html).

How much longer are Pinellas County Citizens for Safe Water going to let
Paul Connett, PhD get away with silence about the F crime and the fact that
CDC is supposed to prevent the crime – not cheerlead for it?

It’s all part of The F Crime Mystery…
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3973

Letting the F Crime Mystery go unsolved is as serious as – well – a boy
having his limb amputated – possibly because he drank CDC/ADA-poisoned
("fluoridated") water…

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
t…@chiromotion.com

Copied to: Tampa Tribune Reporter MIKE SALINERO msalin…@tampatrib.com

Copied to: Oregon Attorney General HARDY MYERS hardy.my…@state.or.us

This Open Letter to Anita Knight of Pinellas County Citizens for Safe Water
will be archived for global access in the Google usenet archive.

Search http://groups.google.com for "CDC promoting limb amputations?"

>>>>>END Open Letter to Anita Knight of Pinellas Citizens for Safe Water

NOTE: My focus is not ending the massive water poisoning crime.  My focus is
ending another massive crime:  Obstetricians are closing birth canals up to
30% and keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get
stuck – and lying to cover-up.  For the Four OB Lies (they are whoppers),
see Dents in babies’ skulls…and note that it is EASY for women to offer
their babies the "extra" up to 30%…
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3897

As usual, I will copy Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers via
hardy.my…@state.or.us.

This Open Letter to Jon Gambrell of the BELLINGHAM HERALD will be archived
for global access in the Google usenet archive.

Search http://groups.google.com for "Retired lady protests fluoridation –
calls fluoride ‘toxic waste’"

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UK woman: 'Fluoride dosing equipment must be switched off now!'

"FLUORIDE DOSING EQUIPMENT MUST BE SWITCHED OFF NOW!"

I am pleased that Paul Connett, PhD is not afraid to suggest that
fluoridationn may be illegal in the UK…

Paul quoted SUSAN KING in his FAN Bulletin #390…

Cllr. Susan King – Secretary of NAMAF is delighted that the new EC
legislation will bring to an end the deliberate pollution of water supplies
with hexafluorosilicic acid at the rate of 1 part per million.  Susan King
said,

"’There is now compelling evidence from the US that fluorides are
carcinogenic linking them with bone cancer affecting young males. Water
suppliers are not pharmacists! Its totally unacceptable to add a known
cumulative protoplasmic poison to our tapwater.  The fluoride dosing
equipment must be switched off now!"

For more information please contact:

Cllr. Susan King – Secretary NAMAF     Mobile Tel: 011-44-7976- 255364

011-44-1455- 828778

<kings1…@aol.com>

I will copy the following to Susan King via kings1…@aol.com…

———-
From: Todd Gastaldo <tgasta…@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: <misc.kids.pregnancy>, <misc.health.alternative>, <sci.med>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:46:33 -0800
Subject: Retired lady protests fluoridation – calls fluoride ‘toxic waste’

RETIRED LADY PROTESTS FLUORIDATION

CALLS FLUORIDE "TOXIC WASTE"

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below)

Jon Gambrell
Reporter
BELLINGHAM HERALD
Bellingham, WA
jon.gambr…@bellinghamherald.com

Jon,

Regarding your recent article about Curt Smith, DDS of Bellingham Families
For Fluoride claiming that Shirley Jacobson’s ad insert calling fluoride
"toxic waste" violates several state election laws. (Paul Connett, PhD
reproduced your article his FAN Campaign Bulletin #389.)

BE ADVISED…

Curt Smith, DDS and Bellingham Families For Fluoride appear to be attempting
to commit the crime of mass battery against residents of Bellingham who do
not want the toxic waste fluoride in their water.

From a legal presentation in Washington State…

Basis for Informed Consent
Battery
€ defendant is held liable for any intended action that
results in physical contact for which the plaintiff has
given no permission.
€ a defendant need not have an evil intent.
€ injury need not result.
Liberty
€ basic human right to control what happens to one¹s
body.
€ independence from controlling influences.
http://courses.washington.edu/mhe523/Session7.pdf

THREE KEY POINTS

1. The cumulative poison fluoride may cause bone cancer (see "CDC promoting
limb amputations?" below)…

2. "Fluoridation" (the intended action of Bellingham Families For Fluoride
and Curt Smith DDS) necessarily brings people into physical contact with the
cumulative poison fluoride – over the protests of those who obviously don’t
wish such physical contact with the poison.

3. Even if the poison fluoride works to prevent cavities (there is doubt
about that; see www.fluoridealert.org), the poison doesn’t even need to be
in the water – i.e. – people who want the poison for their teeth can brush
with fluoridated/poisoned toothpaste. (Fluoridated toothpaste is indeed
poisoned. There is a fluoride poison warning on every label. To read the
warning, go to www.aquasafe.us.)

NOTE TO BELLINGHAM RESIDENT SHIRLEY JACOBSON…

Paul Connett, PhD wrote in his FAN Campaign Bulletin #388:

"You may also wish to send an email in solidarity to Shirley Jacobson
<retiredlady…@yahoo.com>…"

Shirley, I hope you’re reading.  Even were the toxic waste fluoride GOOD
medicine, under the common law doctrine of informed consent it would still
be mass battery to administer it without consent.

I hope you’ll ask Paul Connett, PhD why he isn’t publicizing the fact that
the common law doctrine of informed consent indicates that fluoridation is
crime/mass battery.

CDC and the Washington State Attorney General could end the crime tomorrow.

See "CDC promoting limb amputations?" below.

Thank you for protesting the mass poisoning.

Good luck.

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
t…@chiromotion.com

———-
From: Todd Gastaldo <tgasta…@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: <misc.kids.pregnancy>, <misc.health.alternative>, <sci.med>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:16:30 -0800
Subject: CDC promoting limb amputations?

Attention Oregon Atty Genl Hardy Myers (hardy.my…@state.or.us)…

IS CDC PROMOTING LIMB AMPUTATIONS?

CDC’s water poisoning "public health measure" may cause limb amputations
("fluoridation" may cause bone cancer)…

According to THE SCIENTIST:

"When boys drank water containing at least 100% of the recommended amount of
fluoride, their risk jumped to more than seven times that of unexposed
boys."
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20050711/01

TWO ACTION STEPS (until attorney generals stop the obvious water poisoning
crime)…

1. Sign the petition asking Congress to immediately stop "fluoridation"…
http://www.powalliance.org/petition/index.html

2.  When you sign, note that Members of Congress should be urging **CDC and
state attorney generals** to stop the water poisoning crime.  See the F
Crime Mystery, URL below.

OPEN LETTER (archived for global access; see below)

Anita Knight
Member
Pinellas County (FL) Citizens for Safe Water

Anita,

Thanks for the interesting article by MIKE SALINERO.
http://tampatrib.com/floridametronews/MGBAONBKXEE.html

I didn’t know they could melt sulfur to move it around.

The sulfur must be burned right there in Florida to produce the sulfur
dioxide necessary to synthesize the sulphuric acid that is poured over the
rocks to produce American Dental Association/ADA-approved dental health
products (fluorosilicic acid, arsenic and lead) and fertilizer.

As you know Anita, "fluoridation" is the injection of hazardous substances
from fertilizer production waste sites into America’s water supply – and
CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry/ATSDR "work[s] with
states…to prevent exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites."
(http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/DRO/r1.html).

How much longer are Pinellas County Citizens for Safe Water going to let
Paul Connett, PhD get away with silence about the F crime and the fact that
CDC is supposed to prevent the crime – not cheerlead for it?

It’s all part of The F Crime Mystery…
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3973

Letting the F Crime Mystery go unsolved is as serious as – well – a boy
having his limb amputated – possibly because he drank CDC/ADA-poisoned
("fluoridated") water…

Todd

Dr. Gastaldo
Hillsboro, Oregon
USA
t…@chiromotion.com

Copied to: Tampa Tribune Reporter MIKE SALINERO msalin…@tampatrib.com

Copied to: Oregon Attorney General HARDY MYERS hardy.my…@state.or.us

This Open Letter to Anita Knight of Pinellas County Citizens for Safe Water
will be archived for global access in the Google usenet archive.

Search http://groups.google.com for "CDC promoting limb amputations?"

>>>>>END Open Letter to Anita Knight of Pinellas Citizens for Safe Water

NOTE: My focus is not ending the massive water poisoning crime.  My focus is
ending another massive crime:  Obstetricians are closing birth canals up to
30% and keeping birth canals closed the "extra" up to 30% when babies get
stuck – and lying to cover-up.  For the Four OB Lies (they are whoppers),
see Dents in babies’ skulls…and note that it is EASY for women to offer
their babies the "extra" up to 30%…
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/chiro-list/message/3897

As usual, I will copy Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers via
hardy.my…@state.or.us.

This Open Letter to Jon Gambrell of the BELLINGHAM HERALD will be archived
for global access in the Google usenet archive.

Search http://groups.google.com for "Retired lady protests fluoridation –
calls fluoride ‘toxic waste’"

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I am -not- good about being assertive!

I just had my initial OB.  I was very anxious for this because, as I
have mentioned in earlier posts, I have only a vague idea about my due
date.

Anyway, the OB got good heart tones on the baby (thank goodness), did
all the bloodwork, pap, etc.  She estimated from the size of my uterus
(which she only felt but didn’t measure) and my account of my negative
& postive HPTs taken throughout the month of September that I’m "about
10 weeks."  But she not only wouldn’t do an ultrasound, she *won’t* do
one until I’m at 18-20 weeks (assuming I’m exactly 10 weeks now).  I
tried to explain my concerns to her, but she swore up and down that
18-20 weeks is the most accurate time for getting a due date.
Bullsh*t!  And this is my second doctor at a second clinic — I
switched from the first one because I got the same outright refusal and
"18-20 weeks" hubbub.

Is this the point where I give up and assume a due date is no big deal?
 Or maybe it really -isn’t- a big deal?  I am just so frustrated.

-Carlye
DD 9-29-04
EDD#2 late May/early June

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Maternity Leave in Cailfornia

I am going on maternity leave and my understanding is that by law I get
4 weeks before my due data, 6 (natural) to 8(cesarean) weeks after my
due date and then another 12 weeks(baby bonding). My question is what
happens if my baby is born 2 weeks after the due date — does this cut
into my 12 weeks of baby bonding and make it just 10 weeks.
Does anybody know the answer to this?

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